Monday, February 22, 2021

Involuntary singlehood and its causes: The effects of flirting capacity, mating effort, choosiness and capacity to perceive signals of interest

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Involuntary singlehood and its causes: The effects of flirting capacity, mating effort, choosiness and capacity to perceive signals of inter...

Conservatives were less influenced by overall consequences for the greater good in comparison with liberals: On average, conservatives are less inclined to accept harmful actions for the greater good than liberals

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Political Ideology and Moral Dilemma Judgments: An Analysis Using the CNI Model. Dillon M. Luke, Bertram Gawronski. Personality and Social P...

Extraocular photoreception has been observed in many and diverse species; now they show that in response to illumination, octopuses' arm tip reacts in a reflex-like manner, folding in and moving away from light

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Feel the light – sight independent negative phototactic response in octopus' arms. Itamar Katz, Tal Shomrat, Nir Nesher. Journal of Expe...

Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality: The average load factor for onshore turbines declines at about 3% per year as turbines age; for offshore turbines declines at about 4.5% per year

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Wind Power Economics – Rhetoric and Reality. Gordon Hughes. Edinburgh Univ, November 3 2020. https://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/365-wind-power-...

Meta-analysis on Belief in Free Will Manipulations: We find little evidence for the idea that manipulating belief in free will has downstream consequences on cognition, attitudes or behavior

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Genschow, Oliver, Emiel Cracco, Jana Schneider, John Protzko, David Wisniewski, Marcel Brass, and Jonathan Schooler. 2021. “Meta-analysis on...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Making choices boosts memory, even more so for the unchosen options

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Making memorable choices: Cognitive control and the self-choice effect in memory. Cassandra Baldwin, Katie E. Garrison, Roy F. Baumeister &a...

COVID-19 mortality as a fingerprint of biological age (not chronological age)

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COVID-19 mortality as a fingerprint of biological age. M. Cristina Polidori et al. Ageing Research Reviews, February 20 2021, 101308. https:...

Most people across the political spectrum have relatively moderate media diets, about a quarter of which consist of mainstream news websites & portals; there is above 50pct overlap of media use among Democrats & Republicans

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(Almost) Everything in Moderation: New Evidence on Americans' Online Media Diets. Andrew M. Guess. American Journal of Political Science...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Disagree? You must be a bot! How beliefs shape Twitter profile perceptions

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Wischnewski, M., Bernemann, R., Ngo, T., & Krämer, N. (forthcoming). Disagree? You must be a bot! How beliefs shape Twitter profile perc...

Is male sexual overperception of mating interest a bias for men to perceive interest, or something else entirely?; study says probably it’s something else

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On hits and being hit on: error management theory, signal detection theory, and the male sexual overperception bias. Jordann L. Brandner, Ja...

Treating the weekend like a vacation can increase happiness, and exploratory analyses show support for the underlying role of increased attention to the present moment

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Happiness From Treating the Weekend Like a Vacation. Colin West, Cassie Mogilner, Sanford E. DeVoe.  Social Psychological and Personality Sc...

Intelligence contributes 48–90 times more than grit to educational success and 13 times more to job-market success

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In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence. Chen Zisman, Yoav Ganz...

Although people can selectively endorse moral principles about freedom of speech depending on their political agenda, many seek to conceal this bias from others, and perhaps also themselves

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Motivated moral judgments about freedom of speech are constrained by a need to maintain consistency. Nikolai Haahjem Eftedal, Lotte Thomsen....

Users do not universally interpret high numbers of “likes” for messages congruent to their own attitudes as valid evidence for the public agreeing with them, especially if their interest in a topic is high

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Luzsa, R., & Mayr, S. (2021). False consensus in the echo chamber: Exposure to favorably biased social media news feeds leads to increas...

Deception is perceived to be ethical, and individuals want to be deceived, when deception is perceived to prevent unnecessary harm

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Levine, Emma. 2021. “Community Standards of Deception: Deception Is Perceived to Be Ethical When It Prevents Unnecessary Harm.” PsyArXiv. Fe...

Cleansing effects (one can wash one's hands to recover innocence): Its size has been inflated by dubious research practices

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Ross, R., Van Aert, R., Van den Akker, O., & Van Elk, M. (2021). The role of meta-analysis and preregistration in assessing the evidence...

More Questions About Multiple Passions: Who Has Them, How Many Do People Have, and the Relationship Between Polyamorous Passion and Well-being

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More Questions About Multiple Passions: Who Has Them, How Many Do People Have, and the Relationship Between Polyamorous Passion and Well-bei...